The secret life of coding agents

The Secret Life of Coding Agents Choosing the right AI model is now a well-recognized problem. It is still not trivial, but at least there are benchmarks, pricing pages, context-window comparisons, and plenty of public discussion to guide you. Coding agents are still of a wild west. Many people treat them as simple wrappers around the model: a chat window with file access and terminal commands. In practice, a coding agent can influence the model’s behavior quite a lot.